On Friday it voiced its solidarity with Ben M’barek and said it “strongly condemns the widening campaign of arbitrary arrests”.īen M’barek’s father wrote on his Facebook account that he, too, was held by police and questioned for several hours on Thursday. The NSF includes Ennahda, the Islamist-leaning party that had dominated Tunisia’s fractious politics from the revolution until Saied’s power grab.
“This treatment and the arrests show that the authorities are flailing around and have failed to manage the political, economic and social situation as well as Tunisia’s international relations,” the NSF chief said. The NSF head, Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, told AFP that five detainees including Ben M’barek, the senior NSF member Chaima Issa and Chebbi’s brother Issam, also a prominent politician, had appeared in handcuffs before prosecutors on Friday morning. The left-leaning Ben M’barek, once a government adviser, is a prominent member of the opposition coalition the National Salvation Front (NSF) and leader of the Citizens Against the Coup movement, both formed in response to Saied’s power grab. Saied later pushed through sweeping changes to the north African country’s political system, concentrating near total power in his office. Ben M’barek was the latest of a dozen prominent public figures arrested this month, mostly rivals of Saied, who froze parliament and sacked the government in a dramatic July 2021 move against the sole democracy to emerge from the Arab spring uprisings.
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